A Teacher's Creed
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"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year,
I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and
first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve
prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps
a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like
an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a
marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something
special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced
it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet
a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re
seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is
an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more,
because each of these young persons is more than just a student
entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a
lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes
whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so
as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate
the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted
in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering
them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new
bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that
will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part
of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part
of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually
renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."
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